Kester L (nothing.delete@this.nobody.com) on July 6, 2021 7:48 am wrote:
> Jukka Larja (roskakori2006.delete@this.gmail.com) on July 2, 2021 11:36 pm wrote:
> > Kester L (nobody.delete@this.nothing.com) on July 2, 2021 9:33 am wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't change the fact that the Windows software stack is fundamentally
> > > more ill-suited for big ISA transitions than Apple's, which at least has
> > > the benefit of fat multi-ISA binaries from MacOS/iOS' NeXTStep heritage.
> >
> > I think a more important aspect than anything technical is culture: Apple is quite willing to throw
> > old APIs away every now and then and breaking compatibility with old software. With that in mind, it
> > doesn't really matter if their emulation for old hardware is perfect, rather than just good enough.
> > Windows PC is expected to run anything from last 20 years and when it doesn't people are unhappy.
> >
>
> Part of it is also that MacOS doesn't have a humongous enterprise userbase the way
> that Windows does, and as a rule of thumb OSes with huge enterprise userbases tend
> to be very conservative in order to accommodate crotchety, conservative enterprise
> customers that are slow to update anything (see also: anything that IBM supports).

Enterprise customers are also willing to pay. Maybe not directly about getting their in-house apps to run, but they often do have service contracts that e.g. give them X hours of "free" assistance from Microsoft per month. Or they could pay for extended support, so they can safely run XP one more year on the critical system.

-JLarja